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Show WINNER OF KENTUCKY DERBY GOES TO VIAU By International News Service. NEW YORK, June 2. Omar Khayyam, winner of the classic Kentucky Derby at Louisville, was sold at auction todav by C. K. G. Billings for $26.fiOO to YVilford Viau, a newcomer in American racing circles. cir-cles. Immediately afterward Viau scratched him from the Withers, in which he had been one of the stellar entries at the Belmont track today. Omar Khayyam is an imported three-year-old. by Marco Dan - Liama, and was purchased by Charles, Patterson, Billings's agent, at Newmarket, England, in 191u. |